Chocolate, coffee & cherry biscotti

My kind of cookie..ultimate crunch. I’m not big on soft cookies and when I make sugar cookies or any other softer kids cookie I save the ones closest  to the heat just for me. I feel the same way about bread..soft slices just make me sad. 


So when the cookie munchies hit, you know it’s biscotti time. I often make a white chocolate & pistachio version I spotted here but felt inspired my favourite homemade granola to do my own thing. Biscotti Lisa style, so no Italian mamas need roll over in their graves in the name of sacrilege. 

My biscotti is made with espresso (boiled, concentrated and kicks like a mule) and is chock full of toasted almonds, oven-dried cherries and 72% cocoa dark chocolate chunks. And because I don’t like stop signs, they were dipped in the chocolate melted down with more espresso concentrate and dusted with a generous amount of the leftover toasted almonds.

I had mine with a shot of Vin Santo and a milder cup of joe, sitting looking outside, counting the days till my trees blossom and cascading petals over the slates..spring in all her glory. Have a great week!